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'Is this really happening'?: Your wildfire stories

FirstPerson: Your accounts of fleeing to safety as wildfires tear across California.
/ Source: msnbc.com

'The sky is falling'

Firestorm 2007

'Being 1,200 miles away is so torturous'

'A hideous beauty'

'Pray hard for us, America'

'Oh my God! It's Armageddon'

Memories of 2003 fires


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